Brian Moore Quotes

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.

I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige.

It's your flag and my flag.

Let us abandon this narrow conception of patriotism, which consists of the doctrine, "My country right or wrong." There is a nobler doctrine, ... "My country must always be right.

Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man, taken by himself.

Patriotism is the trump card of a scoundrel.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred.

There is a pride which spurs nations on to great achievements

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.